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diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 2f7db9a98d..0bed6ecb1d 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -160,6 +160,21 @@ Use ``-display sdl`` instead. Use ``-display curses`` instead. +``-smp`` ("parameter=0" SMP configurations) (since 6.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Specified CPU topology parameters must be greater than zero. + +In the SMP configuration, users should either provide a CPU topology +parameter with a reasonable value (greater than zero) or just omit it +and QEMU will compute the missing value. + +However, historically it was implicitly allowed for users to provide +a parameter with zero value, which is meaningless and could also possibly +cause unexpected results in the -smp parsing. So support for this kind of +configurations (e.g. -smp 8,sockets=0) is deprecated since 6.2 and will +be removed in the near future, users have to ensure that all the topology +members described with -smp are greater than zero. Plugin argument passing through ``arg=<string>`` (since 6.1) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' |